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Chiang Y, Fu Q, Liang W, Ganesan A, Nair S. Recovery of 2,3-Butanediol from Fermentation Broth by Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks. Ind Eng Chem Res 2023; 62:16939-16944. [PMID: 37869420 PMCID: PMC10588442 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.3c01925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
Abstract
The efficient separation of the 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) intermediate from fermentation broth is an important issue in the production of biofuels from biomass-derived intermediates. Two zeolitic imidazolate frameworks ZIF-8 and ZIF-71 were investigated for the adsorption of 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) from fermentation broth via liquid breakthrough adsorption measurements. While both ZIF materials initially show high separation performance, ZIF-71 retains robust separation performance even after aging in ethanol for two years, whereas the capacity of ZIF-8 decreases significantly. The robustness and stability of ZIF-71 are further confirmed with cyclic fixed bed adsorption measurements. The uptake of 2,3-BDO on ZIF-71 reaches >100 g/kg with negligible uptakes of sugars, organic acids, and other alcohols present in the fermentation broth. Excellent selectivity toward 2,3-BDO over water is also achieved. The 2,3-BDO-loaded ZIF-71 can be regenerated efficiently with ethanol as desorbent. These findings indicate that ZIF-71 shows considerable promise as an adsorbent to recover and purify diols from fermentation broths.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yadong Chiang
- School
of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100, United States
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- School
of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100, United States
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- School
of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100, United States
- School
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South
China University of Technology, Tianhe District Wushan Road Number 381, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- School
of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100, United States
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- School
of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100, United States
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Aminian A, Motamedian E. Investigating ethanol production using the Zymomonas mobilis crude extract. Sci Rep 2023; 13:1165. [PMID: 36670195 PMCID: PMC9860009 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-28396-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Cell-free systems have become valuable investigating tools for metabolic engineering research due to their easy access to metabolism without the interference of the membrane. Therefore, we applied Zymomonas mobilis cell-free system to investigate whether ethanol production is controlled by the genes of the metabolic pathway or is limited by cofactors. Initially, different glucose concentrations were added to the extract to determine the crude extract's capability to produce ethanol. Then, we investigated the genes of the metabolic pathway to find the limiting step in the ethanol production pathway. Next, to identify the bottleneck gene, a systemic approach was applied based on the integration of gene expression data on a cell-free metabolic model. ZMO1696 was determined as the bottleneck gene and an activator for its enzyme was added to the extract to experimentally assess its effect on ethanol production. Then the effect of NAD+ addition at the high concentration of glucose (1 M) was evaluated, which indicates no improvement in efficiency. Finally, the imbalance ratio of ADP/ATP was found as the controlling factor by measuring ATP levels in the extract. Furthermore, sodium gluconate as a carbon source was utilized to investigate the expansion of substrate consumption by the extract. 100% of the maximum theoretical yield was obtained at 0.01 M of sodium gluconate while it cannot be consumed by Z. mobilis. This research demonstrated the challenges and advantages of using Z. mobilis crude extract for overproduction.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amirhossein Aminian
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-143, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-143, Tehran, Iran.
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Hu M, Bao W, Peng Q, Hu W, Yang X, Xiang Y, Yan X, Li M, Xu P, He Q, Yang S. Metabolic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis for co-production of D-lactic acid and ethanol using waste feedstocks of molasses and corncob residue hydrolysate. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2023; 11:1135484. [PMID: 36896016 PMCID: PMC9989019 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1135484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Lactate is the precursor for polylactide. In this study, a lactate producer of Z. mobilis was constructed by replacing ZMO0038 with LmldhA gene driven by a strong promoter PadhB, replacing ZMO1650 with native pdc gene driven by Ptet, and replacing native pdc with another copy of LmldhA driven by PadhB to divert carbon from ethanol to D-lactate. The resultant strain ZML-pdc-ldh produced 13.8 ± 0.2 g/L lactate and 16.9 ± 0.3 g/L ethanol using 48 g/L glucose. Lactate production of ZML-pdc-ldh was further investigated after fermentation optimization in pH-controlled fermenters. ZML-pdc-ldh produced 24.2 ± 0.6 g/L lactate and 12.9 ± 0.8 g/L ethanol as well as 36.2 ± 1.0 g/L lactate and 40.3 ± 0.3 g/L ethanol, resulting in total carbon conversion rate of 98.3% ± 2.5% and 96.2% ± 0.1% with final product productivity of 1.9 ± 0.0 g/L/h and 2.2 ± 0.0 g/L/h in RMG5 and RMG12, respectively. Moreover, ZML-pdc-ldh produced 32.9 ± 0.1 g/L D-lactate and 27.7 ± 0.2 g/L ethanol as well as 42.8 ± 0.0 g/L D-lactate and 53.1 ± 0.7 g/L ethanol with 97.1% ± 0.0% and 99.1% ± 0.8% carbon conversion rate using 20% molasses or corncob residue hydrolysate, respectively. Our study thus demonstrated that it is effective for lactate production by fermentation condition optimization and metabolic engineering to strengthen heterologous ldh expression while reducing the native ethanol production pathway. The capability of recombinant lactate-producer of Z. mobilis for efficient waste feedstock conversion makes it a promising biorefinery platform for carbon-neutral biochemical production.
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- Mimi Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Kaihua County, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, and School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, and School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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Braga A, Gomes D, Rainha J, Cardoso BB, Amorim C, Silvério SC, Fernández-Lobato M, Rodrigues JL, Rodrigues LR. Tailoring fructooligosaccharides composition with engineered Zymomonas mobilis ZM4. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 106:4617-4626. [PMID: 35739346 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-12037-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 is an attractive host for the development of microbial cell factories to synthesize high-value compounds, including prebiotics. In this study, a straightforward process to produce fructooligosaccharides (FOS) from sucrose was established. To control the relative FOS composition, recombinant Z. mobilis strains secreting a native levansucrase (encoded by sacB) or a mutated β-fructofuranosidase (Ffase-Leu196) from Schwanniomyces occidentalis were constructed. Both strains were able to produce a FOS mixture with high concentration of 6-kestose. The best results were obtained with Z. mobilis ZM4 pB1-sacB that was able to produce 73.4 ± 1.6 g L-1 of FOS, with a productivity of 1.53 ± 0.03 g L-1 h-1 and a yield of 0.31 ± 0.03 gFOS gsucrose-1. This is the first report on the FOS production using a mutant Z. mobilis ZM4 strain in a one-step process. KEY POINTS: • Zymomonas mobilis was engineered to produce FOS in a one-step fermentation process. • Mutant strains produced FOS mixtures with high concentration of 6-kestose. • A new route to produce tailor-made FOS mixtures was presented.
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- Adelaide Braga
- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Department of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Institute of Physical Chemistry-Rocasolano (CSIC), 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal.,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- CEB-Center of Biological Engineering, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal. .,LABBELS -Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.
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Braga A, Gomes D, Amorim C, Silvério SC, Alves J, Rainha J, Cardoso BB, Rodrigues JL, Rodrigues LR. One-step production of a novel prebiotic mixture using Zymomonas mobilis ZM4. Biochem Eng J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2022.108443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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